Solar spacecraft gets new lease of life

newscientistspace.com — New funding for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft will extend its mission to spy on the Sun to at least December 2009.The Sun-monitoring mission is jointly operated by NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), and blasted off on 2 December 1995. It was originally planned to operate until April 2007. May 26, 2006 View in Crawl 4